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You have a square plot of front yard space that measures 15m. What is its area? (You must use correct units.)
What is 225 square metres?
A farmer needs to refence his field. His dimensions to the field are 4 meters and 7 meters. How much fencing does the farmer need?
What is 22 meters?
A parallelogram has a base that is 5 cm and a height of 3 cm. What is the area of the parallelogram?
What is 15 square centimetres?
A line extending from one point on a circle to another, that crosses the centre of the circle.
What is the diameter?
I have a three sided polygon. What is it called?
What is a triangle?
Sam built a small garden in the back yard. He wanted the length to be 15 feet and the width to be 5 feet. How much area did he have to plant his flowers?
What is 75 square feet?
The carpenter is adding a base-board around the family room. The family room is a square room with a length of 14 ft. How much base-board will he need?
What is 56 feet?
Marla and her cousins invented a game. Marla used chalk to draw a rectangle that was 5 metres wide and 24 metres long for a space to play her game. Several other children joined in, and Marla realized that the rectangle was now too small. She doubled the length and doubled the width to create a new play area. Compare the areas of the original and the new play spaces. Determine how much greater the new area is than the original area. Show or explain your work.
The new area is 360 square metres larger than the original or 4 times the size of the original.
A line extending from the centre of a circle to the side of the circle.
What is the radius?
My triangle has a base of 4 cm and a height of 8 cm. What's its area?
What is 16 square cm?
An artist is putting together a collage of several large rectangles. The first has dimensions of 4m x 4m; the second 3m x 5m; and the third 5m x 2 m. What is the total area of the collage?
What is 41 square metres?
You make a border for 6 posters that are all the same size. The total amount of ribbon needed for the posters is 360 centimetres. What are two possible sets of dimensions that these posters might have?
What is 15 centimetres by 15 centimetres?
What is 20 centimetres by 10 centimetres?
Other options are possible.
Marla and her cousins invented a game. Marla used chalk to draw a rectangle that was 5 metres wide and 8 metres long for a space to play her game. Several other children joined in, and Marla realized that the rectangle was now too small. She doubled the length and doubled the width to create a new play area. Compare the perimeters of the original play space and the new play space. Determine how much greater the new perimeter is than the original perimeter. Show or explain your work.
The new perimeter is 26 metres bigger or double the original perimeter.
A circular rug has a diameter of 2 yards. What is the perimeter?
What is 6.28 or 6.3yds?
We measured a highway yield sign and it had a base of 15 inches and a height of 8 inches. What is its area?
What is 60 square inches?
The new homeowners just bought a pool that will cover 60 square metres . They know the length is 12 metres but they have forgotten the width. How wide is their pool?
What is 5 metres?
You have a floor plan for a room that has a total perimeter of 42 feet. The sides have lengths of 12 feet, 15 feet and 8 feet. What is the length of the missing side?
What is 7 feet?
Brian has two rectangular gardens that have the same area but different perimeters. Each garden has an area of 48 square feet. Draw two different rectangles with an area of 48 square feet, but with different perimeters. Then, determine which of your designs will require less fencing.
Dimensions could be 12 feet by 4 feet, 6 feet by 8 feet, 24 feet by 2 feet, 48 feet by 1 foot, 16 feet by 3 feet and various others. The one requiring the least fencing will have dimensions closest to those of a square.
I need to buy some new rails for my trampoline. The radius is 8 feet. How much railing do I need to buy?
What is about 50 feet?
My triangle has an area of 25 square feet. If it is 5 feet tall, what is the measure of the base?
What is 10 feet?
The front porch measures 4.5 m by 5.5 m. What is the total area Mom has to decorate?
What is 24.75 square metres?
On the whiteboard, draw a polygon with a larger perimeter than its area.
See example.
Square floor tiles will be put on the floor of a school hallway. Each tile is 1 foot by 1 foot. The hallway is 85 feet long and 8 feet wide. About how many tiles will be needed to cover the floor of the hallway?
exactly 680 tiles. Answers will vary around 700.
I now need new trampoline material. If the diameter of my trampoline is 20 feet, how much material do I need?
What is 314 square feet?
I have a triangle with a base of 36 inches and a height of 2 feet. What is its area?
What is 3 square feet or 432 square inches?